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What analogy?

The comment I replied to mentioned USA.

Should Americans have faith in their government and democracy?

I wouldn't know because I've never mentioned it to anyone.

I think the idea is that you can use it for reformatting small sets of data I guess.

"make all the dates in this CSV iso-8601"

Yeah there was another thread where OP was pretending to ask about the ethical considerations of "vandalising" teslas. Thing is, I presume OP was a tesla owner because their definition of "vandalism" included drawing things in the dust on the rear window.

In my opinion it's a great way to harm Musk financially. Honestly if you're driving a Tesla you're carrying water for Musk. Everyone has known he's a shit head for a long time now. It's certainly possible for someone's well meaning grandma to be collateral damage but so be it. Not knowing is not a defense.

I wouldn't have the nuts to spray a swatstica on someone's car, so not necessarily advocating for it and saying that's what people ought to do, but shit if you feel like it and are aware of the potential consequences then have at it IMO.

The only reason things burn up when they enter the atmosphere is because they're moving so fast that the friction from the air generates too much heat.

So yes, if you slow yourself down enough then you could just float down like a feather in the wind.

I have no idea how fast is too fast.

The answer to this depends on how much the magic device with the oxygen weighs.

Also just going to set aside anything to do with sky diving and space suits and having friends and everything else that I don't know anything about.

I only know this from playing Simple Rockets on android but basically you direct your thrust in the direction you're moving in order to reduce your velocity, and you'll fall down to earth.

Think of an orbit as the balance between falling towards earth and zipping past earth. If you fly past too fast then you just fly past and maybe the gravity pulls you a bit but not much. If you fly past too slow the gravity pulls you down to earth and you crash. If you fly past at the same speed you fall towards earth the two directions balance out and you end up just spinning around earth.

Therefore, If you're in a stable orbit on the space station, and then you slow down, you'll start to fall down towards it instead of "falling" around it in an orbit.

If you only slow down a little bit you'll start moving towards Earth but you'll be moving way too fast for an unshielded human to enter the atmosphere without burning up.

You'd have to slow yourself down, by directing thrust towards the horizon you're headed towards, enough so that you're not going fast enough to burn up.

Whether or not you can slow down enough, quickly enough, depends on how much thrust your magic device can provide and how much that device makes you weigh.

I don't think that's clear by any means.

They're implementing the machinery for authoritarian control.

Yeah. Like 30 minutes or something. Why would I want to do that?

Yeah I was reading something about this.

The USA was big into eugenics and the Nazis kinda got the idea from them. There was a lot of support for eugenics in the USA in the first half of the 20th century. Sterilisations et cetera.

Subjective. What does "collapsing in real time" actually mean?

My point is, the population is not ready for armed revolt. Until it is any violent actions won't achieve much.

Telling an employee how they should speak could potentially be micromanaging, but providing constructive criticism for drafting emails et cetera is not.

I don't think that thin skinned is the right word for this. It's great to take pride in your own writing style and natural to feel somewhat offended when someone is critical of it. However, it can't hurt to at least listen to criticism in an objective way before deciding whether it's author is being a toxic micromanaging prick, or may indeed have something useful to say.

Oddly enough, just 2 days ago I told a team member to make some changes to the tone of an email. He's a tax consultant, he was emailing an employee of a client who does their bookwork. It was a long email regarding multiple ways they could improve their records in future in order to minimise our fees. My team member didn't really intend it but he'd drafted something that just made him look like an asshole "I'm better than you" type missive to someone who's doing their best with no support and no formal training.

I explained that a good relationship with that person will be far more valuable and helpful to us in future than whatever improvements in their records might arise from the email itself.

The skills involved in drafting good communication can be continually improved over a lifetime.